Telephone scammers have come up with a new scheme of deception to gain access to the accounts of Russians on “Public Services”. Kommersant writes about this, referring to experts in the field of cybersecurity.
It is noted that the scammers began to call citizens and introduce themselves as employees of the portal. In the conversation, they ask to dictate a code from an SMS message to allegedly activate or link a QR code about vaccination to the user’s page.
After receiving the code, fraudsters can get into the personal account of the deceived and find out all confidential information.
Experts warn that attackers often dull their vigilance by addressing a person by name and having some data about him. In addition, such calls do not require money transfer, which also does not suggest the idea of scammers.
Earlier, the Ministry of Finance noted that the struggle for the accounts of users of the public services portal is becoming more acute. Attackers are trying to steal usernames and passwords in every possible way. The department is confident that authorization on the portal via SMS will help protect accounts.